What do you think about the ups and downs of the currency Bitcoin ?
Whether it's an advantage or a disadvantage?
everything that is being traded with money has ups and downs even a cup of coffee can go up and down like for example if coffee import encounters some troubles and the supply of coffee is decreased in the country! so it is not really a disadvantage. and if you are a trader then it is actually an opportunity to make profit. although if you look at bitcoin as a currency then it is not so favorable to have its price swing around so much. but a little volatility (something i hope we see in a couple of years) is ok. |
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Current SegWit signal percentage
2.93% (last 2016 blocks)
18.75% (last 144 blocks)
Source: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/ Signalling hasn't stopped, of course, so the average rate is interesting. But right now, lockin has failed and the only relevant signalling will be in the next difficulty retarget period starting in about 13 days. Yep. This is what I was using. Together with coin.dance and blockchain.info to look inside the blocks to see who was signalling incorrectly. are you sure about what you are saying because according to bitcoincore.org the signalling does not start until 20th which is tomorrow. although looking at the site https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/ they seem to have removed the date which was in the first line! edit: yeap it is on 19th afternoon: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/49447/when-does-signaling-for-segwit-start-exactly |
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I follow crypto stuff and have done for a long while, but I justed looked on coinmarketcap and saw in the top 30 some names like DigixDAO, PeerPlays, Stellar Lumens, Shadowcash, Stratis and Xaurum.
I haven't heard of any of them! They all have a market cap of over $8mill too. One year ago only the top 10 coins or so had a market cap of over $8 million.
I know lots of fanboys who hold the above coins will now post saying that they are great (until they sell them), but it looks to me like we are in a bubble.
What do you think, bubble or just lots of good coins!?
it is a very simple manipulation of this thing called "marketcap" you simply increase the number of available coins as much as you can and then with a pump and some hype you get a huge market cap. Ethereum is the biggest example of this. but lets look at the coins you named: DigixDAO has 2 million coins PeerPlays has 1 million Stellar Lumens 6.8 billion Shadowcash 6.5 million Stratis 98 million Xaurum 87 million and my favorite Ethereum has 87 million now all you have to do is pump the price so with a huge number of coins available even a small price creates a huge marketcap. and if you look their volumes, they only stay up as long as there is a pump going on and then it is back to dead town which proves the manipulation. |
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of course it is possible to make money on Forex, it is even possible to make thousands of dollars with Forex and many are doing it but that doesn't mean i can do it too.
what i see is that you need some experience to start trading. and just like anything else there are so many people around here and on other forums who will try to sell you some crappy service of theirs and charge you a lot of money for it.
if you know how to trade and how to make money in Forex market then start it otherwise go learn it first and then try it out. otherwise it will end up messy for you.
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Some reasons behind lack of eBay bitcoin adoption:
1. PayPal is owned by eBay - and both these companies are not here necessarily to make world a better place but to gain profits.
Introducing bitcoin payments on eBay would cut their profits rather substantially (sellers are paying fee: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).
2. There are more than 192 million PayPal's accounts active worldwide. Meanwhile bitcoin is used by less than 10 million people.
3. You need chargeback option on eBay. Bitcoin is not giving you that.
the only reason is the number 3 because it is the crucial part of buying something online from a random person and also the fact that not enough people are using bitcoin. the amount of fees you are paying with bitcoin (which is a lot less than any other method of payment) is enough to encourage anyone to start using bitcoin but sadly some people fail to see this. |
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Don't say I didn't warn ya.
coule you be any mroe vague  it depends on what you mean by crash. anybody who has seen a price chart knows that after a rise there is always a correction and price will come down a little bit because some traders are selling for short term profit. if this is what you mean and think you are so smart i say think again  but if you mean a crash like price going down to low prices like $650 then i call bullshit because you are opening a random topic to say a random thing as vaguely as possible to call on it later and say "i was right" |
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So I requested withdraw from yobit more than 5 days ago, wrote 4 support tickets by now asking when they are going to send my coins to my wallet but I havent received any answer so far. Withdrawal is in process so no confirmation should be needed. How do I get my coins back.
this is the reason why you haven't received your coins: alt, Waves to be more specific
yobit is the worst exchange that you can find, if you check their wallets you can see that there is only a handful of them operational with the rest in maintenance which lasts forever. and Waves is one of those coins, if you check the wallet it says Online but it can not find the last block which means it is offline and probably will never come back online again. |
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I'm surprised sometimes from what such prediction appears. I don't say that it will never happen that bitcoin will cost 1000 around June. I think if it happen it will be just great! But I only doubt in factors that may affect on the plan of rising. If new hacking will happen we will not see 1000$ bitcoin price.
Hackings keep happening, but most of them are small in scale. Ideally, they shouldn't have an impact on long-term trends. They should just be a blip in the larger scheme of things. hacking should not have any effect at all on bitcoin price because it has never been "bitcoin hack" but instead a "third party crappy service hack" and there is a huge difference between these two. and also it has never been big, i mean even the bitfinex hack was not big enough. 120K bitcoin is nothing compared to daily trade volumes every day. |
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use something easier than localbitcoins, like for example coinbase or circle where you have to only open up an account and connect to your bank or even an exchange service like cex.io to buy with credit cards and then buy and send the coins to your address.
the only skills it needs is going to a website, opening an account by filling out name, address, email,.... and transferring money from bank to that service.
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I really wish more merchants and sites would adopt litecoin if only for the speed of transactions. Unfortunately there is just no demand.
My simple view is this... faucets are the entry point and if more enthusiasts could give litoshi we'd see greater demand.
there is demand but there is little demand for it that is why merchants are not so willing to add litecoin payment to their services. besides if any of the real merchants want to add an additional payment method to their service they will surely go for bitcoin first and not an altcoin unless they already have a bitcoin payment option. |
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satoshi is one of those topics that we can never know the answer to unless it happens. for example you can never say if satoshi reveals himself price goes up or down until it happens because it is not just about his identity, but it is about all the drama that comes with this big reveal. and all the coins he has from his early days and also his stance about the recent debates.
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Invest in a mining farm for altcoins  Altcoin is high risk, as my experiences I was loss big amount only a week. Save and hold is the best strategy to got profitable. That is true, particularly new altcoins price movements no one can predict and if you don't continuously monitor price movement then mostly you will end up in big losses in this kind trading. Either you can hold on bitcoins or try to invest on some good casino bankrolls or lend with proper collateral then you may earn some good profit on your investments. What do you mean by proper collateral? This point has been discussed recently, and the consensus seems to be that the only collateral which can be used online is an account on a forum or site with the provision that you can quickly sell this account if the person you have lent to defaults on his loan. you can read the [EDU] stickies in the lending board to understand this better. here is one of the topics thee: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.0and in short a valid collateral doesn't need consensus and it certainly is not just bitcointalk accounts. it can be anything but anything that you can sell easily. so it can be account, it can be altcoin, it can be account on some place else, it can be steam items (like CS:GO stuff or Dota2 items) or it can even be physical good but that is a pain because of the shipment costs! |
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if i had only 1 bitcoin i would have kept it safe in a cold storage. but if i had more and i had only 1 bitcoin for investment as a separate thing then i would have invested it in multiple altcoins (never just one) and i would choose altcoins that have a potential of a rise, preferably a big rise.
coins i have in mind are LTC, ETH, XMR, Ripple but i am not sure about the last one yet.
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You are a developer? So you want to do bot trading, I guess?
Actually, I don't know any trading. So, I want to learn trading. Do you please explain bot trading. I will be helpful for me. And Thaks for the reply. try not to fall for the bot hype that is going around in some people's minds where they think using a bot will make them rich because they click a button and the bot starts earning money for them because it is nothing like that. and if you don't know anything about trading, stay away from using a bot for now and try to learn the basics for now and then move on to advanced concepts. |
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lending is based on trust and without it no one can even think about doing it and since bitcoin is providing some level of anonymity and it is all done online, that makes it all hard.
that is where collateral comes in and also brings about so many other problems again with trust that you are handing over your valuables to someone else to hold and not abuse.
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there is a very good point about the block reward halving in the OP and it seems like everybody has forgotten that.
a couple of months ago before the halving everybody were talking about the supply and demand effect and how halving is going to affect all of that and the price of bitcoin but now that it has happened nobody is talking about it anymore but now is the time to talk about it because the effect is being felt now not before the halving!
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there is never going to be any way of knowing the answer to this question. the only thing that you can do is making a very off the mark kind of guess based on some things you see on the blockchain. for example the number of transactions, possibly the big whales like the large wallets that hold lots of bitcoin and ask the services like coinbase about the number of users they have.
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first of all i suggest you don't do it because it is hard and time consuming with lots of competition and little return. but if you want to insist, then do it on this forum. just make sure to read the stickies in the lending board here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=65.0 to learn about how to detect scammers and what a valid collateral is. |
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